Portland Timbers

Chivas USA tonight VS. PORTLAND TIMBERS When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Home Depot Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket. Radio: 690 Records: Chivas 3-4-5; Portland 5-4-2. Record vs. Portland: Timbers are an expansion team. Update: A victory Saturday in Carson would double Chivas' win output this season at the Home Depot Center. Despite being a man up for the final 23 minutes, Chivas could not take advantage in a 1-1 tie against Vancouver on Wednesday.

PHOENIX -- The Home Depot Center is getting a new name. The 125-acre multi-sport complex on the campus of Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson will be known as the StubHub Center starting on on June 1, when the naming rights transfer from the chain of home improvement stores to one of the nation biggest ticketing companies. The $150-million complex, designed and built by Anschutz Entertainment Group, has a 27,000-seat main stadium, a 2,450-seat velodrome, an 8,000-seat tennis stadium and an outdoor track facility.

PHOENIX -- The Home Depot Center is getting a new name. The 125-acre multi-sport complex on the campus of Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson will be known as the StubHub Center starting on on June 1, when the naming rights transfer from the chain of home improvement stores to one of the nation biggest ticketing companies. The $150-million complex, designed and built by Anschutz Entertainment Group, has a 27,000-seat main stadium, a 2,450-seat velodrome, an 8,000-seat tennis stadium and an outdoor track facility.

Home Depot Center, the 125-acre sports facility in Carson home to two Major League Soccer teams, will become StubHub Center in June. Online ticket resale outlet StubHub, a subsidiary of EBay Inc., will replace retailer Home Depot as the name sponsor of the $150-million multiuse sports venue owned by entertainment giant AEG. The duration and financial terms of the multiyear agreement were not disclosed. Home Depot paid $70 million for its 10-year sponsorship that is ending. This is the first name sponsorship of a public venue for StubHub, said Danielle Maged, global head of partnerships and business development at the San Francisco company.

Chivas USA's run in the 2011 U.S. Open Cup lasted all of 90 minutes. Two goals in the final six minutes Tuesday night gave the Portland Timbers a 2-0 victory in a wind-swept and rain-soaked match at Merlo Field on the University of Portland campus. Both goals came just moments after Chivas forward Justin Braun was denied a clear scoring opportunity by Portland goalkeeper Jake Gleeson, who rushed out of his area to tackle the ball away from Braun. The Timbers then counterattacked quickly and took the lead when Jack Jewsbury's shot from distance beat Chivas goalkeeper Dan Kennedy and went in at the left post.

Entering arguably its most crucial three-game stretch of the season, Chivas USA approached Wednesday knowing full well what was at stake. Another scoreless tie would be unacceptable, especially against a team currently at the bottom of the Western Conference standings. "We knew we had to win this game," midfielder Ben Zemanski said. "It was a huge game for us. " Sitting one spot out of the MLS Cup playoff picture, and playing with a sense of urgency, Chivas scored 16 minutes into its match against Portland, then held on to beat the Timbers, 1-0, in front of 13,827 at the Home Depot Center.

Somewhere along the line, the message is not getting through. Let the players play the game and keep the referees and assistant referees out of the picture as much as possible. The more invisible the referee, the better the game. That was the notion espoused decades ago by one of the sport's finest officials, the late Ken Aston, a World Cup referee from England and inventor of the system of red and yellow cards. In Aston's view, the referee should be seen as the conductor of the orchestra, and not try to be the featured soloist.

When: 7:30. Where: Jeld-Wen Field, Portland, Ore. On the air: TV: KDOC, KWHY. Records: Chivas 1-3, Portland 1-2-1. Record vs. Portland (2011): 1-1. Update: Chivas USA, which has scored just one goal in four matches, will be without its most dynamic offensive threat for the fourth straight week: Forward Juan Pablo Angel was again ruled out with post-concussion symptoms. Also remaining on the sidelines is midfielder Michael Lahoud, who hasn't played this season because of a right hamstring strain.

If you were to combine Juninho and David Junior Lopes and divide by two, you'd wind up with two average-sized soccer players — not to mention an even number of names for both. Taken as they are, the 5-foot-7 Juninho and his 6-foot-3 Brazilian countryman were the largest and smallest of the Galaxy's outfield players Saturday. And together they played the biggest roles in a 3-1 victory over the Portland Timbers before an announced crowd of 22,143 at the Home Depot Center.

Eric Wynalda has an opinion about everything, which makes the soccer Hall of Famer such an entertaining TV analyst. "Everybody thinks that I'm just a TV guy with a big mouth that's very critical of things," Wynalda barks into his cellphone. "And I get it. They're right. " What has Wynalda fired up on this morning is the way Major League Soccer teams choose their players and coaches. It's a staid system in which everyone is expected to fit into a particular box - the coaches with near-identical resumes and the players filling narrow, predetermined roles.

Chivas USA continued its busy off-season dealing Wednesday when it sent midfielder Ben Zemanski to the Portland Timbers in exchange for allocation money and the right of first refusal for former Chivas USA defender Jonathan Bornstein. Bornstein is currently with Tigres-UANL of the Mexican league. Zemanski, drafted by Chivas out of the University of Akron in 2010, played in 22 games last season, starting 18 of those. The 24-year-old did not score a goal and had only two assists.

The Galaxy will renew its Home Depot Center rivalry with the Houston Dynamo on May 5, highlighting a 34-game regular-season schedule released Wednesday. The Galaxy, the two-time defending Major League Soccer champion, begins play March 3, playing host to the Chicago Fire. That's a week earlier than last spring's opener, making this season the longest in league history. The regular-season finale for the Galaxy will be Oct. 27 in Seattle. The Galaxy plays its first three games, and six of its first nine, at home with the final game in that stretch coming against Houston.

The Galaxy will renew its Home Depot Center rivalry with the Houston Dynamo on May 5, highlighting a 34-game regular-season schedule released Wednesday. The Galaxy beat the Dynamo in each of the last two Major League Soccer championship games, both of which were played at the Galaxy's home in Carson. The Galaxy will open the longest MLS season in history on March 3 --  a week earlier than last year -- by playing host to the Chicago Fire. The season finale will be  Oct. 27 in Seattle.

LONDON -- David Beckham, Major League Soccer's best-known star, isn't playing in the Olympic tournament after being cut from the British team last month. But three of the players MLS did contribute to the field have done the league proud. Striker Jerry Bengtson of the New England Revolution has scored all three Honduras goals in the tournament, including the one that eliminated Olympic favorite Spain and sent the Central Americans on to Saturday's quarterfinal with Brazil. That makes him the second-leading scorer in the tournament, one goal behind Moussa Konaté of Senegal.

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Entering arguably its most crucial three-game stretch of the season, Chivas USA approached Wednesday knowing full well what was at stake. Another scoreless tie would be unacceptable, especially against a team currently at the bottom of the Western Conference standings. "We knew we had to win this game," midfielder Ben Zemanski said. "It was a huge game for us. " Sitting one spot out of the MLS Cup playoff picture, and playing with a sense of urgency, Chivas scored 16 minutes into its match against Portland, then held on to beat the Timbers, 1-0, in front of 13,827 at the Home Depot Center.

The Los Angeles Heat of the American Professional Soccer League West defeated the Portland Timbers, 4-3, in a shootout Saturday night at Portland. The Heat, which lost to the Seattle Storm, 3-2, Friday night, is 5-5 in the APSL Southern Division.

The glass soccer boot finally proved too tight for Cal FC, which saw its Cinderella run through the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup end in a 5-0 loss to Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders on Tuesday in Tukwila, Wash. The fourth-round win sends the three-time defending champion Sounders on to the quarterfinals, joining Chivas USA, which beat the NASL's Carolina RailHawks, 2-1, in Cary, N.C. Juan Pablo Angel's penalty-kick goal in stoppage time proved decisive for Chivas. The match appeared headed for overtime when Carolina defender Gale Agbossoumonde was called for a hand ball after deflecting the ball with his arm while on the ground.

As if things weren't bad enough for the Galaxy, winless since April 21 and buried in Major League Soccer's Western Conference cellar, the team learned Friday that midfielder Michael Stephens and forward Mike Magee will miss the next game after being suspended by the league's disciplinary committee. Both players were also fined an undisclosed amount, Stephens for a challenge that endangered the safety of an opponent and Magee for aggravated dissent against a referee, a temper tantrum that included throwing a ball in the official's direction in the 92nd minute of a loss to Houston.